Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular dorsal fin slicing the surface...
...proclaims through another character: "Haven't you noticed there are more and more of us? We are thousands today, we'll be millions tomorrow. We don't advertise our presence, but we are there. We'll get together and we'll light such a blaze that no policeman on earth...
...interconnected, boxy pavilions that house the Bezalel National Art Museum and the Samuel Bronfman Archaeological and Biblical Museum. Designed by Israeli Architects Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad, the pavilions are soft to the feet, with taupe carpeting over cork, and harsh on the eyes, with unshaded clerestories admitting a blaze of light. In the Bezalel* the exhibition is mostly on loan from ten countries, mainly illustrates Old Testament themes, and spans art history from the quattrocento to Vasarely's op. Where the Bezalel triumphs is its Judaica: intricate wooden doors from Cairo's medieval synagogue of Maimonides...
...specter of steady jobs. While Fonda broods about the plump divorcee he loved and lost at a dude ranch, Ford dreams of escape to a desert isle "where there ain't no grass, ain't no horses." Then the bronc-busters' skill is challenged by a blaze-faced roan given to bucking, biting and occasional drunkenness. At one point Ford is so enraged by the animal that he leaps into the truck and snorts: "I'm going to run over him-he'll never know what hit him." Later, wintering in the high country where...
...upon donning the red hat in 1959 confided, "I am happy for myself, but I am even happier for the people of Chicago," banned parish bingo, renovated dilapidated schools (15 days after he took over as archbishop in 1958, 87 children and three nuns died in a school blaze), racially integrated the parochial school system, declaring, "The glory of Christ demands it"; of cancer; in Chicago...